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Internal QAEchotech has a robust internal QA procedure. Quality assurance / peer review is conducted on a weekly basis, as described below.
CP - cardiac physiologist; COM - clinical operations manager; CL - clinical lead Approximately one third of ALL studies are reviewed for audit purposes and graded into one of five categories, as below: Category 5: No disagreement Category 4: Disagreement over style and / or presentation of the report Category 3: Failure to describe clinically insignificant echo feature Category 2: Definite omission of significant echo feature but unlikely to result in serious morbidity and mortality Category 1: Definite omission or misinterpretation of significant echo feature with potential for serious morbidity and mortality |
